Hi Martin
I'm trying Datacrow but it just freeze after loading.
Well, that is 1 step further than I get: The app starts, asks me what language to use and I select English then the app closes.
However, that was trying to use javaw.exe to run the app.
I changed that to java.exe and now see in the cmd window that there are problems which seem to revolve around this error:-
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: plugins/about (wrong name: plugins/About)
Reading the datacrow\readme\readme.txt I see this:-
-dir:<installation directory>
Use this parameter when Data Crow starts incorrectly and complains
about missing directories (non Windows platform only).
Well, datacrow\plugins\about.class could be the missing plugin that is being moaned about in the error messages so I tried adding the datacrow installation directory to the command to start datacrow. I now have a program object with the following:-
Path and filename: J:\JAVA\OPENJDK6\BIN\JAVA.EXE
Parameters: -jar -Xmx256m -dir:J:\Java\datacrow J:\Java\datacrow\datacrow.jar
No good, that simply fails to start the app, no error messages displayed - until I uncheck the program object Properties, Session, Close window on exit. I now see:-
Unrecognised option: -dir:J:\Java\datacrow
Could not create the java virtual machine.
So, looks like the -dir parameter in the readme is wrong; maybe there should be a space in the dir parameter ie
Parameters: -jar -Xmx256m -dir: J:\Java\datacrow J:\Java\datacrow\datacrow.jar
Well that gets rid of the above "Unrecognised option" error but results in this instead:-
"Unable to access jarfile J:\Java\datacrow"
At that point I gave up and emailed the datacrow guys asking what is going wrong. Hopefully I'll get a reply at some point.
Regards
Pete